KWCH 60th Anniversary Top Stories

From the sidewalk outside of the Broadview Hotel, in the early 1950s and 60s Channel 12 broadcasted a live Christmas parade. Large balloons of cartoon animals and floats, Santa, television personalities and local politicians, could be…

When 19-year-old Navy-enlisted man Bobby Stout was transferred to Naval Air Station Hutchinson, just south of Yoder in June of 1953, he noticed people were excited about something new that was coming. There was a TV in the barrack's rec…

Infant car seats that risked serious injury to children during an accident. A roofing scam that left water pouring into a woman's home. Children forced to have unnecessary root canals, crowns and tooth extractions for millions of dollars…

Amid the corn dogs, funnel cakes and ribbon winning livestock, Kansans have found Channel 12's most well-known reporters and television personalities at the Kansas State Fair. Since 1961, the station has broadcast live from the Hutchinson…

"I just can't believe it after all these years," said Joyce Livingston as she reflects over her years hosting local programs at Channel 12. "I don't think there's a time I go into a restaurant or a store where somebody doesn't stop me and…

In the early 1950's a new kind of music called rock 'n' roll was taking over the airwaves. Girls in poodle skirts and guys in wing-tipped shoes danced to songs by Frankie Avalon andElvis Presley. And for the next decade, a locally…